Welcome to this year’s Capital Fringe splash page, an easy reference to all of our Fringe coverage throughout the site.
FRESH FRINGE
This year’s DCTS Capital Fringe Crew
DCTS Features:
2011 Capital Fringe Festival – it’s a wrap
e-Geaux (beta) producers talk about their groundbreaking audience app
The art of the Fringe button – an interview with Julianne Brienza
He’s a Producer – Charlie Fink on how an AOL guy got in the producing game.
Performer John Feffer: How a respected foreign policy analyst got bit by the Fringe bug.
As the reviews come in, their ranking and a link to the review will appear on the table below. Our writers are rating the shows from a low score of 1 to the Pick of the Fringe score of 5.
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I see that your critic has yet been able to make it to INCURABLE. That’s a shame since they only have 2 performances left and it’s amazing and deserves an audience. It came highly recommended so I checked it out and left thinking that I cannot imagine there is a better show in the festival this year (including the one I’m in, which has gotten some pretty great reviews, thank you very much). The script is hilarious but smart, substantive and at times beautiful enough to have made me cry. Which is impressive given the show is about a man with spots on his penis that turn out to be a colony of aliens who send an ambassador to visit him. So certainly the plot is Fringe-worthy. But everything else about this show would make it fit right in the regular season of any company in town. The acting is top-notch (and not graded on a curve for Fringe but genuinely excellent by any measure), especially Ben Kingsland (who has worked at Woolly and Rep Stage) in the lead and Genevieve James, who steals the show as Greta, the ambassador from Genitopia. An audience member sitting next to me at the show described her afterwards as “a pint-sized nuclear reactor of energy.” The design and direction are both inventive and elegant, right down to the seamlessly choreographed scene changes. Seriously, this is one of the best plays I’ve seen in ages, Fringe or otherwise, and I really hope more people will discover this rare gem in the festival.
Where is Ross Preston and his reviews. His shows are almost done? Boo Hiss.